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Christmastide

Come Celebrate the Birth of Christ! Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas Season & a Blessed new year.

Monday, December 24

4:30pm Christmas Carol Service

5:00pm The Vigil Mass of the Nativity

11:30pm Christmas Carol Service

Tuesday, December 25:

Midnight (12:00) Mass

8:00am Christmas Mass

11:00am Christmas Mass

Christmas Continues After December 25

Leave up those decorations and continue to rejoice! As we all know, Christmas doesn’t end on December 25, but is only the beginning, as we celebrate Christ’s coming into the world!

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From the USCCB Website:
‘The liturgical season of Christmas begins with the vigil Masses on Christmas Eve and concludes on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. During this season, we celebrate the birth of Christ into our world and into our hearts, and reflect on the gift of salvation that is born with him…including the fact that he was born to die for us.’

Today we honor John, writer of one of the four Gospels, who answered the call to be an apostle of Jesus. Pray about your own vocation today.
John and his brother, James, Galilean fishermen called the “sons of thunder,” were chosen to be among the Twelve Apostles. John was with Jesus at the Trans-figuration, in the Garden of Gethsemane and on Calvary. It was to this “beloved disciple” that Jesus entrusted his mother’s care.

Today, as we remember the Holy Innocents put to death by King Herod, pray a rosary for life and meditate on the glorious mysteries. Take time to visit our shrine in the church and light a candle for the Holy Innocents & all the children who have left this world too soon. Pray for greater respect for all life from conception until natural death.

Fifth day in the Octave of Christmas – Today is the feast day of St. Thomas Becket, who was martyred for defending the principles of religious liberty. Pray to him for the protection of our religious liberty from contemporary threats.

Ever since December 25, we have been celebrating Christ’s birth.
On the last day of His octave, we honor His Mother.
There is much to contemplate on this day – it’s the day of Christ’s naming,
it’s a day to pray for peace and it’s the start of a new year of grace.*

Today we remember Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first person born in America to be canonized as a saint. She married, raised five children, was widowed, converted to Catholicism and started a religious order, the Sisters of Charity.

St. John Neumann came to America as a missionary and eventually became Archbishop of Philadelphia. St. John was known for his devotion to teaching and to working with immigrants and the poor. Today, pray for migrants and refugees searching for a better life around the world.

Today is the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, when through the descent of a dove, God made manifest that Jesus was his beloved Son, sent for the salvation of the world.

“The origin and foundation of Christian Baptism is Jesus. Before starting his public ministry, Jesus submitted himself to the baptism given by John the Baptist. The waters did not purify him, he cleansed the waters.”
(United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, 184)